“I have always wanted to tell my story - or, more to the point, my side...” — Faith Ringgold Quote

I have always wanted to tell my story - or, more to the point, my side of the story.

There were people who would complain about their jobs, and my mother would walk away from that job. I liked that a lot about her. She was a very, very creative woman, and eventually, she stopped working outside the house, and she just had her own customers whom she made clothes for.

Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are different. We hail from Africa to America, so the culture is mixed, from the African to the American. We can't drop that. It's reflected in the music, the dance, the poetry, and the art.

I think I had struck on a combination of imagery and politics that worked.

I'd get scripts and think: 'What's the point of this?'

From a purely ethnological point of view, I was not a period-born Dada.

You spend all this time reading or thinking or praying or searching or exploring.Maybe there's an Omega Point of love.

To me, point of view is everything.

What's the point of staying sober?